Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said the scheme - being tested out this year - would "give those who miss out on their top-choice apprenticeship a second chance by matching them with another opportunity in their area"

"They are not necessarily chasing luxury. As you can see, this interior is elegant, well done, well made, with a high quality of materialism. It's not luxurious, not over luxurious - we don't have chandeliers in the ceiling or anything like that. What they need is to travel with as …

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) guidance is that a seafarer is abandoned when their shipowner fails to cover the cost of his or her repatriation, or has left them without the necessary maintenance and support, or has otherwise unilaterally severed ties with them. The latter includes failure to pay contractual …

McSweeney's resignation comes after police launched an investigation into Lord Mandelson over alleged misconduct in a public office. Emails released as part of the Epstein files suggest the peer leaked sensitive government information to Epstein whilst a minister in the last Labour government. The BBC understands that Lord Mandelson's position …

According to the book Get In, authored by Maguire and Pogrund, he dropped out and went to live in an Israeli kibbutz for six months, before returning to London to study at Middlesex University - leaving with a degree in politics and marketing

Snowboarding sensation Mia Brookes - one of Great Britain's most exciting medal prospects at the Winter Olympics - shrugged off an early hiccup to seal her spot in the big air final. Despite overcooking the landing on her opening run, Brookes cut her usual relaxed figure as she scored a …

When figure skating coach Eteri Tutberidze's "tremendous coldness" was described as "chilling to see" at the last Winter Olympics, it may have been hard to imagine her returning to her sport's biggest stage. Four years later, the highly successful coach is at Milan-Cortina - and not everyone is happy about …

At the time of the sentencing in August 2020, then Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern said life imprisonment without parole meant Tarrant would have "no notoriety, no platform. and we have no cause to think about him, to see him or to hear from him again"

Meawhile, in November BBC News reported how a campaign of harassment and intimidation took place at Sheffield Hallam University in an attempt to shut down an academic's research into allegations of forced labour among Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang region of China

The leader of the Justice First party, he was elected governor of the Zulia region in 2017 but barred from taking office after he refused to swear an oath before Maduro's National Constituent Assembly